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The phrase "almost entitled to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where someone has a near claim or right to something, but not quite fully.
Example: "After years of hard work, she felt almost entitled to a promotion."
Alternatives: "nearly deserving of" or "close to having the right to".
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We believe we can't keep spending money, but feel almost entitled to.
Landing a job at the Paris office of The New York Herald Tribune soon after, she found herself strolling through Paris like Jean Seberg in "Breathless," emboldened by her outfit to "take out a notepad and quiz Eleanor Roosevelt at the Hôtel de Crillon as if I were (almost) entitled to".
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Of the almost 2,000,000 persons entitled to vote, about 700,000 voted to stay with Germany and 500,000 for unification with Poland; 682 communes declared themselves in favour of joining Poland, and 792 preferred Germany.
Any American diplomats who might have to leave will almost certainly be entitled to keep their jobs and be reassigned to the State Department headquarters or other home agencies in Washington or other overseas postings.
Except in Scotland, where the priority need test has been abolished and almost everyone is entitled to housing, we essentially have an all-or-nothing system that expects people to wait until they are very vulnerable before getting any entitlement to help – a race to the bottom.
In fact, the original show was almost entitled, 'Wagon Train to the Stars.' These adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek: The Animated Series and six feature films.
Despite this, privately educated pupils, already advantaged by being taught in smaller classes etc, are apparently entitled to almost half the places at Oxbridge.
It did similar research two years ago, and suggested that almost 1m households were entitled to winter fuel allowances and bus passes, despite having assets in excess of £1m.
On paper, they are worse off, since under the old regime they were entitled to almost all of the revenue from the park, rather than just half of it.
The family that created and ran the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street has been torn apart over who is entitled to almost £2 million of admission fees collected in the past two years.
Just under 10 million of the almost 62 million Germans entitled to vote are aged 18 to 30, and Ms. Merkel, 59, who is seeking a third four-year term in national elections on Sept. 22, seems keen to win them for her center-right Christian Democrats.
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